I’m standing up here before you today… with a very troubled heart. You see, my friends… I’ve always insisted on… taking responsibility for your lives. But, I’m really… like a first-time parent… who makes mistakes… and tries to learn from them. And like that parent… I find myself at that moment when I have to decide. Do I hold on… or do I trust you to yourselves? Let go and hope that you’ve understood… at least some of my lessons. If we don’t start trusting our children… how will they ever become trustworthy? I’m told that the senior class at the high school… has gotten use of the warehouse in Bayson… for the purpose of putting on a senior dance. Please… join me to pray to the Lord to guide them in their endeavors.
Here’s the segment from Bill Maher’s show about Mike Johnson.
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Here’s number 24:
I didn’t know who Kirk Cameron was so I looked him up on Wikipedia (here – excerpts below).
Kirk Thomas Cameron (born October 12, 1970)[1] is an American actor, evangelist, and television host.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He first gained fame as a teen actor playing Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains (1985–1992), a role for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards…. Cameron is an Evangelical Christian who partners with Ray Comfort in the evangelistic ministry The Way of the Master and co-founded The Firefly Foundation with his wife, actress Chelsea Noble….
Cameron was an atheist in his early teens.[58] When he was 17, during the height of his career on Growing Pains, he became a born-again Christian.[27][59][60]
After converting to Protestant Christianity, Cameron stated in his autobiography, he came to feel that some of his scenes were antithetical to his newfound faith, and inappropriate for the family viewers that were the show’s intended audience. Among these was a scene that called for the unmarried Mike Seaver to share a bed with a girl and, in the morning, say to her, “What’s your name again?” For these reasons, he began insisting that these types of storylines be edited to remove the parts that he found objectionable.[7][61]
Maher didn’t feature number 18. It reads “I support a ban on the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.” I’d heard of this rock band but didn’t know anything about it so I also looked it up on Wikipedia (here) . I am not quite sure why banning them would be on MAGA Mike’s wish list but it may have something to to with their albums and the religious themes in them.
One of them is described as follows:
Beethoven’s Last Night was written and recorded in 1998 and 1999 and turned over to Atlantic Records in late 1999 for release in 2000. The story begins when Mephistopheles appears before Beethoven, whom Paul O’Neill refers to as “the world’s first Heavy Metal Rock Star”,[14][15] to collect the great composer’s soul. Of course Beethoven is horrified at the thought of eternal damnation, but the devil has an offer and the bargaining begins. There are numerous plot twists including the fate of his music, and the ending is based on a true but little known fact about Beethoven.
This (above) was number one. It occured to me that among the many slang terms for penis one of the more common less discusting ones is MAGA Mike’s last name.
I doubt that Maher’s mocking MAGA Mike will be more than a minor blip on the radar of the far-right extremists. They are delighted that he’s in line to be the next president and that this scares the bejesus out of Democrats. Would the man who problably believes what his wife does that torturing LGBT people with conversion therapy (see WebMD) shy away from praying that he ascends to the presidency before the next election? If such prayers are answered and his god decides it’s his time for him to be president there are only two people standing in his way.
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